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From: barry@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Don't buy a car from these idiots!
Message-ID: <3639@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 19:38:53 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.3639
Posted: Fri Feb 15 19:38:53 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Feb-85 04:48:13 EST
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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I am STILL fuming over this one!  Since I don't think the dummies in
question are on the net, here goes (if they are, I can plead temporary
insanity!)

I bought a brand new Ford Mustang from Wilmington Ford in Mass.  Figured into
the price of the car was $700 for an extened warranty.  I assumed it to be
Ford's own plan, but WRONG!  It was a special Wilmington Ford policy whereby
you must get all work done there, and geez is it fun!

7:30 am, you line up with all the other people waiting for service (usually
about 40 or so) and wait until they write you up (usually by 8:30 or so)
No appointments are possible.  After MANY problems which they didn't bother
to fix, I brought in the car for its last fix up before I got to 12,000 miles.
The major problem was a hum in auto reverse on my ford tape deck.

11am, I am told the car is finished.  I get in, turn on auto reverse, and
sure enough, the hum hadn't been touched.  I was told "they all do that".  But,
I insisted that they were full of it, and really should fix it since the whine
was so loud that auto reverse was useless.  They listened again, and said they
would fix it.

2pm - the car is parked in the same spot where I left it, untouched.  I went
to the owner and asked what the hell was going on with service.  I was patted
on the head (literally), and told to "sit down and be quiet".  I was then 
asked where my boyfriend was.  This guy had no idea if I even had one or not.
He then commented on how "cute" I was.  Nice sleeze.

5pm - I find that my car has 20 extra miles on it, somebody had driven it out
to lunch, had dug through my cassette tapes, throwing some of them on the floorand a new radio.  A crummy audiovox that sounds like SHIT!  It's even worse
than the ford one that was in there in the first place.  I complain and get
"well, its brand new and under warranty, so bring it back some other time".

Gee!  I guess this means I can wait for another 10 hours!  What joy!  Sort of
like the other times I brought my car in and was told it would be an hour or
so and wound up being all day.

Maybe you can get a good price on a car from this joint, but DON'T buy their
silly service policy, DON'T buy their rustproofing package (took 2 days),
DON'T let them add on an air conditioner (they dug out the glove compartment
and refused to replace it).

I feel better now.